1. What was the name of David Bowie's astronaut hero of "Space Oddity?": Major Tom
2. Peter Schilling hit in 1984 with a sequel to that song. What was it called?: Major Tom (Coming Home)
3. Which former Beatle released "Venus and Mars" in 1975?: Paul McCartney and Wings
4. What East Coast band's album covers (there have only been five!) always feature spaceships?: Boston
5. Which famous New Orleans trumpet player shares his last name with the most famous astronaut?: Louis Armstrong
6. Deodato had a pop hit in 1973 with an instrumental version of the theme from what movie?: 2001 (A Space Odyssey)
7. Who wrote the music for both Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind?: John Williams
8. This Def Leppard song mentioned Bennie and the Jets, Sergeant Pepper, and the Satellite of Love.: Rocket
9. At a Grateful Dead show, what was "space?": The long instrumental jam in the second set
10. This Becky's Island artists' first solo album was called "Space Cadet - Solo Flight." KC
11. What time was "zero hour" for Elton John's Rocket Man?: Nine A.M.
12. What was Billy Preston's first chart hit, in 1972?: Outa-Space
13. "Space Age Love Song" was this New Wave band's second hit, in 1983.: A Flock of Seagulls (forgot about that one, eh?)
14. Both Shocking Blue and Bananarama took this song to Number One on the charts. What was the song?: Venus
15.This was Jonathan King's only U.S. chart single.: Everyone's Gone to the Moon
16. What planet is mentioned in the other part of the title of Trane's 2001 hit "Tell Me?": Jupiter 
17. What R.E.M. song later inspired a movie about Andy Kaufman?: Man on the Moon

Bonus: It's one of the most infamous albums of all time. A series of spoken-word interpretations of mid-60s songs such as "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy. In the sky. With Diamonds." What am I referring to?: Ay ay ay...The Transformed Man, by William Shatner